Yes, we had this in two forms. Both fixed by the dracut fix (and
rerunning it)
Subject: SR101238520451 Re dracut timeout problems after
patching
Marcy,
We released this fix in maint
(dracut-044.2-10.15.2.s390x). The other issue related to this:
SR101237346921 Re: SLES Sp4 problem with
lvm and device names
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 10:26 AM Mark Post <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 4/21/20 12:11 PM, Will, Chris wrote:
> > Has anyone run into something like this? I would like to fix this
> proactively and not wait until the server dies and I have to go into
> emergency mode. This could be an issue with all our servers.
>
>
> Hi, Chris,
>
> I really thing the BCACHE messages are a red herring. I'm not at all
> sure what the real cause of the problem is, but I don't think it's that.
>
> Have you opened a problem with your support provider? I think a lot more
> information is going to be needed to help you with this.
>
> As far as being proactive, there are a number of things you can try. I
> don't know that any of them will actually prevent the problem, since we
> don't really know what's causing it. The "Inconsistent metadata found
> for VG system-vg - updating to use version 8 n 8" message is the most
> interesting data point from what I can tell.
>
> If you possibly can, I would try to clone the DASD volume(s) that make
> up one of your other existing SLES12 SP4 systems, and see if you can
> recreate the problem. If so, then re-clone the volume(s), and try doing
> something like this:
> pvscan
> vgscan
> pvck /dev/dasd?? (for each physical volume)
> lvscan
>
> Then try extending a logical volume again and see if the problem
> reoccurs or not. This is very much stabbing in the dark, but it might
> provide some relief.
>
>
> Mark Post
>
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